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Published 2 November 2022
Inside the 20-year battle for a fourth channel
Published 29 August 2022
The government has announced it plans to start commercial radio in the UK
Published 20 May 2022
Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House
Published 14 February 2022
A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network
Published 28 December 2021
Part Ten: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 26 December 2021
Part Six: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 5 November 2021
Comparative maps of VHF and UHF coverage from the Independent Television Authority
Published 25 October 2021
ITV is here. Will it kill the cinema?
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
Published 13 September 2021
It’s time for a fourth channel in the UK. But no more than that, please
Published 14 May 2021
Grampian is almost here! Find out how to tune in, what to watch and who’s behind the new programmes
Published 12 April 2021
It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…
Published 18 December 2020
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
Published 30 September 2020
Big promises from Tyne Tees Television in 1958 as they get ready to launch
Published 28 September 2020
The government gives the go-ahead for Independent Local Radio in 1971
Published 22 September 2020
Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?
Published 14 August 2020
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
Published 12 August 2020
The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964
Published 31 October 2019
The Belfast Telegraph reports on the opening of Ulster Television
Published 24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
Published 27 May 2019
The Daily Telegraph has a plan for ITV in 1971: tear it up and start again. It’s nonsense and we’ll tell you why
Published 20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
Published 6 May 2019
A Transdiffusion exclusive: read the Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971
Published 17 January 2019
The British cabinet discusses what ITV should be showing on Sunday afternoons in 1955
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
Published 7 January 2019
The Independent Television Authority took on new powers in 1964. The TVTimes in February 1965 explains what these are and how the ITA is structured
Published 29 November 2018
The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried
Published 4 October 2018
An introduction to the ITV transmitter network in 1966
Published 13 September 2018
An introduction to content regulation on ITV in 1966
Published 5 September 2018
An introduction to our analysis of a week on Southern Television in our new subsite Zenith
Published 30 August 2018
An introduction to television for Wales in 1966 / Cyflwyniad i deledu yng Nghymru yn 1966
Published 23 August 2018
An introduction to television advertising rules in 1966
Published 16 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Published 31 July 2018
How Thames presented itself in every ITA/IBA yearbook from 1969 until 1988
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Published 19 July 2018
A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966
Published 13 July 2018
ABC producer Penry Jones in 1964 on why religious programmes on ITV are popular
Published 28 June 2018
CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive
Published 14 June 2018
Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract
Published 4 June 2018
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Published 18 May 2018
The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years
Published 8 April 2018
Our new microsite takes a snapshot of ITV as it stood in the middle of 1959
Published 20 February 2018
Instructions for transmitter staff in the event of screens going blank